🚨🚨🚨 I can confirm that my friend Shelly Kittleson was abducted and may have taken hostage in Baghdad by Khatib Hezbollah. Whereabouts and condition unknown. I am her designated U.S. point of contact. If you have information please provide to law enforcement and send me a DM.
My sister Elizabeth @Elizrael is back home, and she wouldn't be without @aboehler. His determination saved her life-and saved our family's world. Adam, we are eternally grateful. 🙏
There is a belief in Abrahamic religions that one who saves a life, has saved the entire world. Well, then @aboehler has saved dozens of worlds. If it were not for Adam's determination and continued engagement, I'd have died in captivity https://t.co/Kn1fTzlb0W
Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Iraq a tragedy I highlighted when I hosted her brother and sister at our home last March. In her New York Times interview she’s telling her harrowing story of torture, rape, and humiliation that lasted 903 days two and a half years. This all happen to her despite she went to Iraq as researcher doing her PhD at Princeton University. Her ordeal is a stark reminder of how dangerous Iraq truly is, and any claim that “everything is fine” is nothing but total nonsense.
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The story of my kidnapping by Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia serving Iran, 903 days of captivity, and liberation thanks to threats of the Trump Administration https://t.co/1wM34fcLFQ By @adamrasgon, @IKershner & @ronenbergman
Congratulations to Mark Savaya for this important appointment. Mark played an instrumental role in setting me free after 903 days in captivity by Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia serving Iran, without anything given in return.
This is terrible news for anyone serving Iran's interests in Iraq and seeking to undermine Iraqi sovereignty.
Huge congratulations to our friend, the one and only @Mark_Savaya, on his appointment as Special Envoy to Iraq!
May God bless your efforts with success
צופה שוב ושוב בחטופים מתאחדים עם משפחותיהם ובוכה מאושר. הזמן בשבי מרגיש אין סופי. לשרוד כל יום זה מאבק נגד החולי, הרעב, הבדידות, הייאוש ואיבוד השפיות. כל כך מגיע לשורדים, למשפחותיהם ולנו את האושר הזה.
מודה מעומק ליבי למנהלת החטופים ולכל הגורמים שפעלו בנחישות ובמסירות למען שחרורי. תודה מיוחדת לצוותים הרפואיים המדהימים על הטיפול המסור. תודה לכל מי שפעל למען שחרורי מהשבי. אין לי מילים לתאר את תחושת האושר להיות חופשיה ועם משפחתי. לכל החטופים ולמשפחותיהם מגיע לחוות את התחושה הזו.
Finally, blessedly, free after 903 days in captivity. Thank you President @realDonaldTrump, for the decisive action that brought me home without anything given in return to the kidnappers, Kataeb Hezbollah.
I am deeply grateful to Special Envoy for Hostage Response @aboehler, @SecRubio, @StateSPEHA, Mark Savaya, and @MickeyBergman for securing my release. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who tried to help in any way.
Finally, blessedly, free after 903 days in captivity. Thank you President @realDonaldTrump, for the decisive action that brought me home without anything given in return to the kidnappers, Kataeb Hezbollah.
I am deeply grateful to Special Envoy for Hostage Response @aboehler, @SecRubio, @StateSPEHA, Mark Savaya, and @MickeyBergman for securing my release. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who tried to help in any way.